China and WW2

Question 1

How high do death tolls go concerning the Chinese front?

Answer 1

14 Million

Question 2

What do the Chinese death tolls show?

Answer 2

Not a minor WW2 front

Question 3

Where was the Chinese wartime capital?

Answer 3

Chongqing

Question 4

What two ideological forces emerged in Asia in the 1910s?

Answer 4

Chinese Nationalism

Japanese Imperialism

Question 5

What did the Russo-Japanese war leave Japan with control of?

Answer 5

The railways

Question 6

When was the Manchurian Crisis?

Answer 6

1931

Question 7

When did the majority of Japanese expansion take place?

Answer 7

1930s

Question 8

Which party controlled China in the 1930s?

Answer 8

Guomindang

Question 9

Who led the Guomindang?

Answer 9

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 10

Who was the ‘thorn’ in Guomindang’s side?

Answer 10

Communists in Central China

Japanese Expansion

Question 11

What was Kai-Shek trying to achieve?

Answer 11

Chinese Unification

Question 12

What political debate was happening in China in the 1930s?

Answer 12

Whether to go to war

Question 13

What event increased tensions between China and Japan?

Answer 13

The 1931 Manchuria Invasion

Question 14

What event triggered the 2nd Sino-Japanese war?

Answer 14

The Marco Polo Bridge Incident

Question 15

When was the Marco Polo Bridge Incident?

Answer 15

July 7, 1937

Question 16

What triggered the MPB Incident?

Answer 16

Japanese soldier went missing, Japanese demanded to investigate in Chinese territory led to soldiers fighting

Question 17

Which two fronts did the war start on?

Answer 17

Shanghai

Beijing

Question 18

How long did the Japanese think the war with China would last?

Answer 18

3 Months

Question 19

Why did Japan not defeat China in 3 months?

Answer 19

China retreated to interior to Chongqing

Question 20

Why was it easier for China to defend Chongqing?

Answer 20

Mountainous and had grain

Question 21

What was the weakness of Chongqing?

Answer 21

It was susceptible to air attacks using explosive and incendiary bombs

Question 22

Why could the Japanese only attack Chongqing at certain times?

Answer 22

Hard in winter due to mist

Question 23

What did the people feel they were owed?

Answer 23

A debt by the government

Question 24

Why was it important that the people feel they were owed something by the government?

Answer 24

Because this led to Communism

Question 25

What did the New Life Movement aim to do?

Answer 25

Control Chinese lifestyles

Question 26

Who created the New Life Movement?

Answer 26

Chiang Kai-Shek

Question 27

Was the New Life Movement successful?

Answer 27

No

Question 28

Why was the New Life Movement not successful?

Answer 28

Not able to create definitive ethical system like the Communists

Question 29

What’s an example of the failures of the New Life Movement?

Answer 29

The Blue Shirt, Far-Right Fascists who violently implemented the NLM

Question 30

What major WW2 event dramatically changed the Pacific Front in 1941?

Answer 30

Pearl Harbour

Question 31

What did Pearl Harbour do?

Answer 31

Brought the US into the war

Question 32

What effect did Pearl Harbour have on the Pacific Front?

Answer 32

Created Allies vs Axis structure

Question 33

Why was the Sino-Japanese war important to the result of WW2?

Answer 33

Because the Chinese held up J troops that could otherwise have been fighting the Americans

Question 34

Why was Chinese conscription important?

Answer 34

More support for opposition

Question 35

When did the Chinese Civil War take place?

Answer 35

1945-1949

Question 36

Why did the Chinese Civil War take place?

Answer 36

Antipathy towards the Nationalist created support for the Communists

Question 37

How were the Chinese efforts in WW2 portrayed by the Communist government?

Answer 37

Suppressed as achievement of previous government

Question 38

Why has the Chinese role in WW2 become more important to recent governments?

Answer 38

Disillusionment with Cultural Revolution
Nationalist Pride needed (Taiwan Unification)
Leverage against Japanese in international relations

Question 39

Why is Asia’s memory of WW2 increasing as it declines in European memory?

Answer 39

Because becoming more important as it creates a National Identity